Henrie M. Treadwell, Ph.D., director of Community Voices and Men’s Health Initiatives, and Joyce Nottingham, Ph.D., MSM consultant, received the Most Outstanding Contribution to Public Health Over the Past Years Award for their collaboration on the editorial titled "Standing in the Gap" published in the October 2005 edition of the American Journal of Public Health. Drs. Treadwell and Nottingham were honored as "the authors of a paper that advanced a given public health policy or program by persuading readers to think differently about a topic."

Drs. Treadwell and Nottingham attended the award ceremonies in November where they were publicly recognized as the second recipients of the authorship award. Editors and editorial board members from the American Journal of Public Health were present during this session and the November issue of the AJPH includes an article on the award-winning editorial.

 

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EDITOR'S CHOICE: Standing in the Gap
Henrie M. Treadwell, PhD and Joyce H. Nottingham, MS, PhD
National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga

The United States is undergoing what has been provocatively described as one of the largest mass migrations in our nation’s history. Every year, 630 000 residents will cross the border between the community and the correctional system, and they will make the journey virtually unseen and unheard. Many of these voiceless migrants might have stayed at home if they had only had access to comprehensive primary health care services, including substance use prevention and treatment services. While US prisons have traditionally held poor men, disproportionate numbers of whom have been African American, and increasing numbers of whom are Latino, the . . . To read the full text of the article, visit http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/extract/95/10/1676.